The Good, the Bad, and the Gnocchi - Magic School Bus

What is mechanical advantage?

• Doing a little action using less force to do a larger action with more effect.

• Adding stickers to you artwork.

• Doing a hard action using lots of force to get a little action to happen.

• When the action done produces an equal reaction.

A lever is an example of...

• A complex machine

• An animal

• A simple machine

• A sphere

Simple machines makes things..

• Impossible

• Easier to do

• Hard to understand

How did the students use the wavy pasta as a simple machine?

• To make food to eat

• As swords to fight off enemies

• As a ramp, so they didn't slide

• As a lasso

A slide is an

• Elevator

• Lever

• Inclined plane

• Wedge

An elevator uses the simple machines:

• Wedges

• Pullys

• Computers

• Marbles